Theresa May says she wants Britain to unite around Brexit. I have suggested some conditions for doing so on Twitter this morning:
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All May is doing is copying Thatcher’s ruse when the ‘grate’ lady (and boy did she grate) para-phrased Francis of Assisi when she entered No. 10 knowing full well that she was going to try something radical and ultimately destructive.
Boy do we never learn.
There is no unity in leaving the EU much as there is so little in the EU itself in reality. Is anyone taking bets on when the Euro collapses?
It seems to have survived Italy….
“Collapses”? Who knows as it’s politics keeping it alive.
I would argue that it has already failed in it’s aims, the below quote is from the EU website
“When the EU was founded in 1957, the Member States concentrated on building a ‘common market’ for trade. However, over time it became clear that closer economic and monetary co-operation was needed for the internal market to develop and flourish further, and for the whole European economy to perform better, bringing more jobs and greater prosperity for Europeans. In 1991, the Member States approved the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty), deciding that Europe would have a strong and stable currency for the 21st century.”
Judging the rates of unemployment in the eurozone it has massively failed.
excellent list nothing a left leaver like me disagrees with.
But Graham, there’s not the remotest chance in hell in any of these being implemented by this current government, where the hard right nationalist/market fundamentalists are firmly in charge. When will ‘left leavers’ as you term yourself face up to the fact that by voting to leave the EU you’ve given the hard right just what they wanted?
Have you never heard of the expression out of the frying pan into the fire? I agree Cameron and Osborne were dreadful, but what we have now is, and will be, even worse. The anti EU right clowns loathed the EU because it was (a) internationalist, and (b) promoted regulated markets rather than their daft utopianist dreams of ‘free markets untrammelled by bureaucrats’.
As Richard has pointed out in other posts, we’ll now move towards being no more than a giant tax haven, pandering to the worst type of international shysters, and the worst kind of race to the bottom capitalism.
And you, and other left wingers voted for this. Utterly, utterly stupid.
I have always suspected that politics is circular with the far left and far right meeting ’round the back’. Now that we have Farage”s and Corbyn’s teams agreeing on Brexit, I’m seeing that come true
Yes it’s appalling and depressing. But enough of that. Time for a much more visible, noisy and active fight back. I’m thinking back to the 60’s. It has to be made unequivocally clear to Madam May and her gang that the divisions they have created are not going to go away as long as they continue to pursue divisive policies. If conventional politicians cannot represent those of us who are, roughly speaking, somewhere in the centre, then more unconventional politics are called for.